Comments about ‘Divorce exacts public toll’

What I think is ridiculous are the comments about the validity of the study. It
is on the Sutherland web site (meaning the Internet for anyone to read)so go
read it. The methodology is impeccable and very conservative (in that cautious,
not political, way). Hatuletoh, the self-righteous skeptic, does not seem to
understand that while university studies are peer-reviewed, the studies are
worthless if the peers are worthless (think global warming science). The fact
that Sutherland brought it to the attention of Utahns should be considered a
plusespecially for skeptics, because they can now go read the study and examine
the methodology.

This study focuses on one factor only: female-headed
households in poverty. And it says only this: if every one of those female got
married today, 60% of them and their children would be lifted out of povertyand
that Utah taxpayers would save 34% in taxes they pay to support them right now.
The authors of the study purposefully considered and then set aside all of the
other variables (like marriages affect on male-headed single family households)
that you folks have been saying arent in the study to its detriment.

Furthermore, what is obviously going on here are a few people who do not know
how to separate public policy from personal problems. Im sorry you all went
through a bad divorce, or know someone who did. But sound public policy cannot
be made on the back of your personal problems. It needs to be made in the clear
air of the common good.

And one last thought for the sponsors of this
comment board: why not only allow real names and not allow people to hide behind
anonymity? I know that the Des News isnt the only situation that suffers from
this modern anti-free speech phenomenon (free speech requires accountability and
responsibility for our words). But the D-News could be a trend-setter in this
respect.

Unfortunately tearing up families makes money; lots of it. Blood money for sure
but it's money that certain people make at the expense of all of the rest of us.
Divorce attorneys, mediators, "parent-coordinators", custody evaluators,
commissioners, judges, DHS, and DCFS all make money and gain job security from
divorce. For instance DHS got $26 million in 2006 from federal incentives for
"child support" collection and the state's general fund profiteered to the tune
of over $5 million from this too. That's money that requires a parent to get
chopped out of the kids lives for the state to collect. Commonly ex-wives get
your house, alimony, "child-support", and your kids and have the feminist led
revengeful satisfaction of rubbing your nose in it too. How any marriage stays
together in the face of the money-hungry self-deluded divorce industry is a
miracle by itself. For more info about how truly diabolical the divorce industry
is, lookup Professor Stephen Baskerville on the Internet and read his book
"Taken Into Custody: The War Against Fathers, Marriage, and the Family"